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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3441270, member: 76863&quot;]Calling something 100 percent original with 200 plus years of toning is what I would call hype with some exceptions.&nbsp; For that to be true it would have to have never even so much as a spit shine or wipe which is unlikely considering not only the age but how coins used to be treated.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There’s not many coins we know for sure are original and most of those were from mint bags.&nbsp; There’s a difference between something being worked on or doctored and 100 percent original.&nbsp; Educating collectors should include letting them know that and that almost always all that can be done is going off the current look, but without having owned the coin from day one the vast majority of the time it’s impossible to back up things like 100 percent original much less 200+ year toning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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